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Finally, the book proposes specific research topics, and detailed advice on how to construct tests of language for academic purposes and suggestions for further research.
What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading.
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CAMBRIDGE LANGUAGE EDUCATION Series Editor: Jack C. Richards This series draws on the best available research, theory, ... the whole community edited by Fred Genesee Understanding Communication in Second Language Classrooms by Karen E.
This volume attempts to bring together the competing perspectives on second language reading research and instruction to tackle these questions: should second language reading instruction be comprehension-oriented, or should it be language ...
Emphasis is on English as a second language.
This book investigates the issue of cloze-validity as a measure of second language reading comprehension.
Bookbinder, G. E., Vincent, D., & Crumpler, M. (2002). ... Language Learning, 47(3), 423–466. doi:10.1111/0023-8333.00016 Buck, G., Tatsuoka, K., Kostin, I., & Phelps, M. (1997). The sub-skills of listening: Rulespace analysis of a ...
This book describes a theory-guided approach to Foreign Language (FL) course development, implementation, instruction and assessment.
Reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth, this book concisely summarises what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, ...